[address-policy-wg] 2009-01, Global Policy for the allocation of IPv4 blocks to Regional Internet Registries

If in fact there are irreconcilable differences regarding what space is to
be recovered and/or returned, then the global policy should be abandoned and
a new one proposed which tells IANA what to do when it receives returned
address space from an RIR.

Ray 

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From: address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net
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Subject: RE: [address-policy-wg] 2009-01, Global Policy for the allocation
of IPv4 blocks to Regional Internet Registries


> Note  however that ARIN is the odd man out here. All the 
> other RIRs have agreed on the original wording, so it may not 
> be up to *us* to do anything.

Actually it is up to us to do something.

Now that ARIN has approved a policy with substantially different
wording, there is not going to be a global policy covering this. 

RIPE needs to decide if we are happy with separate regional policies, or
if we are willing to adopt ARIN's wording in an attempt to reach a
global policy.

Of course, if there is not much desire to change anything, then de
facto, ARIN's policy is regional and there will be no globally
consistent policy. That is roughly how the NRO process works.

--Michael Dillon